It's a principle that exhausts rights.

Caveat: I'm one of those that believes Fair Use is a right - a right to the public. Or if you prefer the reverse logic: a limitation on the rights of the Copyright Holder. One might say it's an area that is the right of the public which the Copyright Owner's own rights may not extend.

The point by placing your statement into an equivalent context: I view your position as splitting hairs, so knock yourself out.

And copyright law does not, contrary to what you assert, give the copyright holder any right to profit from their work.

Copyright is an exchange to ensure knowledge that would otherwise be kept from the public is disseminated to the public for a Legal Monopoly in the market in order to provide the Copyright Owner a greater opportunity to profit.

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• Fair Use isn't a right - Authored by: tknarr on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 08:01 PM EDT
  • Right To Profit {- prove I said that - with specificity please - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 06:41 PM EDT